Representação da Informação em CT&I no contexto da Divulgação Científica: a revista “Amazonas Faz Ciência” da Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas – Fapeam

Abstract

The social function constitutes the duramen of the work of scientific popularization. To socialize the knowledge with the purpose of causing in the future generations the interest for the science, in the form to prepare them for the scientific and technological vocation it is the driving force that drives the work of the scientific spreaders. To break with the hiatus still existent between the scientific knowledge had still like accessible for few ones and unintelligible for many people is gradually succumbed by the activity of scientific popularization carried out in the context of the government organizations. In this context, the agencies of funding to the research, in special the Amazon Research Foundation (Fapeam) has somewhat more than a decade of his creation is adding efforts up in the intention of driving the development of the Science, Technology and Innovation in the state. In view of the exposed one, this thesis has like investigating general objective magazine “Amazon Does Science” from the Fapeam for to the identification of questions and subjects, in order to check his adaptation to the public politics of the region and the paper fulfilled like fountain of popularization of informations in areas, fields and domain of the Science, Technology and Innovation (CT&I), Research and Development (P&D) for the Amazon region. The adopted methodology is characterized for the research of nature exploratory and empirical. A lifting happened and analysis of the periodic collection “Amazon Does Science” from the Fapeam, during the period from 2005 to 2013, taking as a point of cut for quantitative and qualitative analysis of content the articles of popularization that appear like principal matter of cape and the interviews granted to the magazine. In the empirical research, the extrinsic and intrinsic data were explored, being constituted in the indicators of analysis of the documentary selected corpus. The results of the research indicate basically: i) the Fapeam like funding agency of the scientific basic and hard-working research, of the technological experimental development, of the Amazon in the State, looks to carry out his paper near the society; ii) the magazine inside what it was proposed reflects the objective of the Fap that is of “ increasing the stock of scientific and technological knowledges of the State ”; iii) the chain of the subjects aims at the clarification of the content for the reader; iv) the magazine has been presenting the clear effort to maintain a regular periodicity; v) the childlike supplement has an educative function, becoming a pedagogic useful tool to the teachers; vi) the magazine has a tendency to collect the new technologies of information and communication like the social media, looking to maintain interactivity with the public reader. So, end that magazine “Amazon Does Science” it has been corresponding to the expectations of the society, in making of public power the principal results of the scientific research financed under his responsibility, through the dissemination in periodic publication. Another important aspect is the constant dialog of the publishers of the magazine with scientists, investigators, educators, businessmen, public administration and the readers in general, in order to value the available services to the society.